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Thursday Aug 02, 2007

These are from Day 2 and show what an all star guest list the event had. Be sure and check out me showing off my rusting Japanese when chatting with Horiguchi-san (#3 below). Also, for an example of a customer running Ubuntu on Sun Hardware take a listen to what Chip Anderson of Stockcharts.com has to say (#4 below).

Topics: I caught up with Marten after his keynote on day 2.
We discuss the LAMP, SAMP and WAMP stacks; how Marten got involved with
MySQL; 110 airports; The two audiences that MySQL serves -- the ones
who'll spend time to save money and the ones who'll spend money to save
time; and how he thinks Jonathan Schwartz has done so far.

Topics: How Ubuntu Live came about; How they bring on new
conferences; FOO camp; books vs conferences; Changing the world by
spreading the knowledge of innovators; Being the first commercial
internet site back in the day and the coolest thing about Portland.

Topics: Making use of my rusty Japanese, I ask Horiguchi-san
what type of work he does , where he uses Ubuntu and what he likes
best about the distro; What are his impressions of Ubuntu Live and
would he consider himself an Edo-ko?

What is StockCharts.com, why they've chosen to go with
Java and Ubuntu and why they've chosen to run it on the Sun Blade 8000;
Why Chip has come to Ubuntu Live and why he digs the train from Seattle
to Portland.

Topics: What's Matt's role in helping to set Ubuntu's
technical direction; how he found his way to Ubuntu and Canonical;
Dividing his time between Canonical on the desktop, server and mobile
and why he recently made the move from LA to London.

Stay tuned for more interviews from OSCON and Portland...

\* See more professional pics from Ubuntu Live by Duncan Davidson (the first one is of myself and David Duffey, who turned me on to the pics, competing in the Bungee run. I won :)

Endnote: The above files are in mp3 (thanks Patrick), you can grab the ogg versions here. I would also like to give an
endorsement for the Levelator,
which Simon turned me on to. It was absolutely brain dead easy to use
and it basically normalizes volume, and cleans up the files for you. And
its Free as in Beer and Free as in Freedom.